1. Then Job answered and said,
2. “Truly indeed you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3. I also have insight like you; I am not more inferior than you. And who does not know things like these?
4. I am a laughingstock to my friends: ‘He calls on God, and he answers him.’ A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.
5. Those at ease have contempt for the thought of disaster, but it is ready for those unstable of foot.
6. The tents of the destroyers are at peace, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whom God brings into his hand.
7. “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;